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Museums and confectionery: Next time you are at the Met, make sure to look at the special ESDA exhibition space just before the Lehman Wing. Austrian Du Paquier porcelains are set up with real sugar paste ornaments to evoke an 18th Century formal table. (It's up till March 21.)

About Me

I have published four novels and two books about eighteenth-century British literature; my latest book is "Reading Style: A Life in Sentences." I teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.